Who's coming here soon

Published 12:27 pm, Wednesday, February 20, 2013

OMG! It's NKOTB, B2M!

If you've been hangin' tough waiting for una noche (one more night) with your favorite boy bands of the '80s and '90s, you've now come to the end of the road. New Kids on the Block, 98 Degreesand Boyz II Men have teamed up for, um, "The Package" Tour, coming to the Times Union Center in Albany on Thursday, Aug. 1. While formerly 14-year-old females might disagree, critics would likely not place NKOTB and 98 Degrees in the same league as Boyz II Men, times are what they are. Much has changed: one of the NKOTB-ers has come out as gay, Boyz II Men are a trio and 98 Degrees' Nick Lachey has already cycled through a marriage and reality show with first wife Jessica Simpson and moved on to another. Tickets on sale 10 a.m. Saturday.

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DMB at SPAC? Really?

Is news of the Dave Matthews Band coming to the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs really news? Only the date, and this year it's Saturday, May 25, and Sunday, May 26. Whatever tickets might be left go on sale 10 a.m. Friday, March 22.

Carter the Junior

Speaking of boy bands, the Backstreet Boys' Nick Carter had a younger brother who had a moderately successful solo career as a teenybopper heartthrob. The now 25-year-old Aaron Carter hasn't had a CD out in more than a decade, but that isn't stopping him from coming to the Putnam Den in Saratoga Springs on Saturday, April 27.

Taking Root in Saratoga

Earlier at the Putnam Den, frequent visitor Rusted Root comes back again on Monday, March 11. It's been nearly 20 years since the alternative jam band with world music influences had its biggest hit with "Send Me on My Way," but their fans are devoted and vocal.

Down for Disney ditties

This one's for the kids. The latest Disney Live! onstage spectacle, "Mickey's Music Festival," is due at the Palace Theatre in Albany on Friday, April 12. Having a Moment

In This Moment is a female-fronted heavy metal band touring to support their 2012 CD, "Blood," an album that required a couple of replacement players when two band members left to join "American Idol" finalist James Durbin's touring band. In This Moment plays the Upstate Concert Hall in Clifton Park on Saturday, March 30, along with Love and Death, All Hail the Yeti and Owl

Boom goes the Hall

Michigan indie rock duo IAMDYNAMITE will be having a capital time at the Upstate Concert Hall on Saturday, April 6. The Virgin Marys lend support.

Kings in Clifton Park

Kottonmouth Kings might strike you as a down-home country name, but they are actually a hip hop group out of California. Or to hear them tell it, they play "psychedelic hip hop punk rock." If you kotton to that sort of thing, check them out at the Concert Hall on Sunday, April 21. Also on the bill are Duece, Snow tha Product, Eskimo Callboy and K. Daver

Undead rise Upstate

It's that specific genre called "masked rap rock" on Tuesday, May 21, when Hollywood Undead headline at the Clifton Park venue that features Falling in Reverse as the opening act.

Sticking it

The Stick Men — AKA: Tony Levin, Markus Reuter and Pat Mastelotto — throws a new show onto their tour at the Van Dyck Lounge in Schenectady on Thursday, March 21, a day after their already announced gig at Bearsville Theater.

Jazz from Jim at Van Dyck

The Van Dyck Lounge gets back into the groove of classic jazz when the Jim Cullum Jazz Band plays there on Friday, March 22.

Starship troopers

Paul Kantner is the only original Jefferson Airplane member involved in bringing the legendary rock band's updated version, Jefferson Starship, to the Van Dyck on Saturday, March 23, but several other Starship passengers have been on the ride for many years.